Elevate your strawberries.
Chocolate covered strawberries are romantic, sophisticated, decadent and delicious. They’re relatively simple to make, but adding a few items can take them up a notch and impress anyone that needs impressing.
You can get fancy ones at the grocery store, but they are pricey. They’re super easy to make at home, and you get bragging rights.
The process:
Wash and completely dry the strawberries. Melt chocolate chips (dark is even more decadent) in microwave or double boiler. Grab the green tops, dip, swirl, let rest on parchment.
Some recipes say a “secret” is to add crisco or oil to the chocolate. But I’m not sure why I’d add a horrible oil to my delicious chocolate. It takes the health down a notch! (unless it’s coconut oil). Let me know if you try it because it’s supposed to make them more “professional.”
Now, the real fun comes when you add that extra something…
Elevate your berries for your love:
While the chocolate is still wet: add festive sprinkles, chopped nuts, crushed cookie bits, crushed candy, chocolate shavings, edible gold leaf, crushed cereal, mini marshmallows, coconut flakes. The possibilities are endless. But that extra sprinkle is like extra love.
When the chocolate has dried: melt more chocolate and place in a piping bag for decorations: stripes, swirls, polka dots, etc.
If you use white chocolate, you can color it.
Edible luster dust is another option. Gently brush it on the dried chocolate to make them shine.
If you’re really wild, you can melt white chocolate, separate it into 3 bowls, dye one chocolate bowl red, one pink, leave one white and do a multicolored dip.
